I guess my "I borked my system" subj just didn't cut it :( so I'll try with this one. The other night the system went to "hell in a handbasket" for some reason. Couldn't get anything to work right. I did an 'upgrade' from the MDK 9.0 cds and then reloaded my backed up KDE setup. However, now I have no sound and XMMS won't load. When booting I get
"Error while initializing the sound driver: Device: default can't be opened for playback (no such file or directory) The sound server will continue, using the null output device. Output of lsmod is below: [EMAIL PROTECTED] chris]# lsmod Module Size Used by Tainted: P snd-pcm-oss 36932 0 (unused) snd-pcm 55808 0 [snd-pcm-oss] snd-timer 9964 0 [snd-pcm] snd-mixer-oss 9016 0 [snd-pcm-oss] snd 24804 0 [snd-pcm-oss snd-pcm snd-timer snd-mixer-oss] via686a 8512 0 (unused) eeprom 3476 0 (unused) lm75 3232 0 (unused) i2c-proc 7088 0 [via686a eeprom lm75] i2c-viapro 3920 0 (unused) agpgart 31840 3 (autoclean) lp 6720 0 parport_pc 21672 1 parport 23936 1 [lp parport_pc] sr_mod 15096 0 (autoclean) (unused) floppy 49340 0 (autoclean) via82cxxx_audio 19036 0 uart401 6628 0 [via82cxxx_audio] sound 55732 0 [via82cxxx_audio uart401] es1371 26568 0 soundcore 3780 0 [snd via82cxxx_audio sound es1371] ac97_codec 9928 0 [via82cxxx_audio es1371] gameport 1660 0 [es1371] af_packet 13000 1 (autoclean) ip_vs 74328 0 (autoclean) ipt_ttl 600 0 (autoclean) ipt_limit 856 0 (autoclean) ipt_unclean 6616 0 (autoclean) ipt_TOS 984 0 ipt_REDIRECT 760 0 (unused) ipt_REJECT 2744 0 (unused) ip_conntrack_irc 3056 0 (unused) ip_conntrack_ftp 3952 0 (unused) i2c-isa 1224 0 (unused) i2c-core 15332 0 [via686a eeprom lm75 i2c-proc i2c-viapro i2c-isa] ipt_LOG 3384 0 (autoclean) ipt_state 568 0 (autoclean) iptable_filter 1644 0 (autoclean) ipt_MASQUERADE 1272 0 (autoclean) iptable_nat 15224 0 (autoclean) [ipt_REDIRECT ipt_MASQUERADE] ip_conntrack 18400 4 (autoclean) [ipt_REDIRECT ip_conntrack_irc ip_conntrack_ftp ipt_state ipt_MASQUERADE iptable_nat] iptable_mangle 2072 0 (autoclean) ip_tables 11672 14 [ipt_ttl ipt_limit ipt_unclean ipt_TOS ipt_REDIRECT ipt_REJECT ipt_LOG ipt_state iptable_filter ipt_MASQUERADE iptable_nat iptable_mangle] 8139too 14472 1 (autoclean) mii 1152 0 (autoclean) [8139too] ide-cd 28712 0 cdrom 26848 0 [sr_mod ide-cd] ide-scsi 8212 0 scsi_mod 90372 2 [sr_mod ide-scsi] NVdriver 1065920 10 usb-uhci 21676 0 (unused) usbcore 58304 1 [usb-uhci] rtc 6560 0 (autoclean) ext3 74004 3 jbd 38452 3 [ext3] Also, when trying to run xmms from the cli it shows: ** WARNING **: snd_mixer_attach: No such device Also, under system > services, I've got Alsa set to start at boot, however, it shows it stopped. If I click 'start' it says Alsa driver isn't running. No kidding, I knew that. Any ideas anyone? It wouldn't be so bad but I miss my streaming audio from Virgin Radio, UK. -- Chris Registered Linux User 283774 http://counter.li.org 5:53pm up 15 min, 2 users, load average: 0.18, 0.12, 0.10 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ You won't skid if you stay in a rut. -- Frank Hubbard ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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